Ericsson: Enabling the Networked Society

Ericsson drives innovation across the communications spectrum. Through an annual investment of USD $5 billion in research and development, Ericsson has been at the forefront of some of mobile technology’s most significant advancements. To continue making these advancements, it is essential that companies benefitting from Ericsson’s technology obtain fair licenses. Commitment to these principles is fundamental to the creation of the Networked Society.

Ericsson has been at the forefront of innovation since 1876. A decade ago, traveling globally – or even between regions in the U.S. – meant manually adjusting your mobile device to make it compatible with whichever platform was standard in that area. Today, all that has changed. Mobile technology’s rapid evolution has relied heavily on collaboration among companies like Ericsson that have developed the standards that allow devices to be used more universally.

Thanks to Ericsson’s investment of USD $5 billion each year in R&D, we have enabled interoperability and helped advance standards such as 2G, 3G, and now 4G (LTE), that have revolutionized how we communicate and connect. We can talk, text, take photos, watch live television, access the Web, and even video chat from almost anywhere, opening new ways to learn, work and play in the Networked Society. Ericsson helped enable solutions to allow you to communicate with your house to know how much electricity you’re using, connect complex transportation networks to track cargo, reach a first responder when it really matters or connect physicians with patients in remote locations.

Today, 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks and we support customers’ networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions. We meet the communications needs of our customers across more than 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries. Ericsson has changed the way the world works and stays connected. And that’s just the beginning.